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"That meant a neat little electric bill of about six dollars, and Mr. Nesbitt talked to me in a very un-neutral way, and I got my hat and walked off home. He called me up after a while and tried to make peace, but I said I was ill from the nervous shock and couldn't work any more that day. So he sent me a box of candy to restore my shattered nerves, and the next day they were all right.
Mrs Nesbitt looked at her anxiously, as she said: "My dear bairn, you have nothing to reproach yourself with. You have had a very anxious summer, what with one care and another." Effie rose with a gesture of impatience, but sat down again without speaking. She blamed herself severely; but what was the use of speaking about it now? She took up Christie's letter and read again the last sentence.
No one was in it but John Nesbitt and his mother; and they were both delighted to offer a seat to the young girls. Christie sat on the front seat with John, who was quite silent, thinking his own thoughts or listening to the quiet talk going on between Effie and his mother; and Christie enjoyed her drive in silence too. How very pleasant it seemed!
"Look here," he said, "I'll try what I can do with Mr. Wingrave. Wait here!" Aynesworth found his employer alone with his broker, who was just hastening off to keep an appointment. He plunged at once into his appeal. "Mr. Wingrave," he said, "you have just had a young broker named Nesbitt on." Wingrave glanced at a paper by his side. "Yes," he said. "Six hundred short!
I grinned at this, as did Ned Anstruther, who likewise winked in a knowing way to me behind Mr Bitpin's broad back; but, before I could reply to the lieutenant's complimentary speech, Commander Nesbitt made his appearance on the poop, having come up the after-hatchway and gone into and out of the captain's cabin again, without either of us seeing him.
If a shadow began to gather on the child's brow, her attention was claimed immediately, either by Jean, the merry maid-of-all-work, or by Mrs Nesbitt herself. There were chickens to feed, or vegetables to be gathered, or the lambs were to be counted, or some other good reason was found why she should betake herself to the fresh air and the pleasant fields or the garden.
"`To-day it is my turn, to-morrow it may be yours," replied Captain Farmer, looking as grim as the Taku Fort as he translated the sentence for the other's benefit. "The Emperor of China had best bear this in mind, for there'll be a pretty fine kick up, I tell you, when they come to hear of this business in England!" "You are right there, sir," agreed Commander Nesbitt.
At this time, however, the enemy had assembled in force. Two battalions of porters, led on by Dr. Dobbin, charged us on the flank; a heavy brigade poured down upon us from the battery, and but for the exertions of Harry Nesbitt, our communication with our reserves must have been cut off.
I keep feeling that the rest of you don't realize it as hard as I do, but you will laugh at that. "Mr. Nesbitt likes me, but he has well, he has what a minister should call a 'bad disposition. I'll tell you more about it in German when I meet you. German is the only language I know that can do him justice. "I have been in trouble of one kind or another ever since I got here. Mr.
Do you think I can arouse at this hour of the morning for nothing but to listen to your bungling? Can no one give me a free translation of the passage?" This digression from mathematics to classics did not surprise the hearers, though it somewhat confused them, no one being precisely aware what the line in question might be. "Try it, Nesbitt, you, O'Malley. Silent all? Really this is too bad!"
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